You could learn to speak Dutch in a few weeks on Duolingo. Very easy
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Date: February 27th, 2017 7:39 PM Author: Fuchsia Stubborn Point
Very similar to english.
I drink milk = ik drink melk
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3538312&forum_id=2#32714803) |
Date: February 27th, 2017 7:42 PM Author: Fuchsia Stubborn Point
ik eet brood
No this isnt a korean vampire, thats how you say "i eat bread"
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3538312&forum_id=2#32714822) |
Date: February 27th, 2017 7:42 PM Author: tan 180 boltzmann nursing home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeC1yAaWG34
Closest to English is I think Frisian
still, because of the Norman Yoke, English vocabulary diverged quite a bit from other GErmanic languages
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3538312&forum_id=2#32714824) |
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Date: February 27th, 2017 7:55 PM Author: tan 180 boltzmann nursing home
Some say it's a language.
There really isn't much a difference between a dialenct and a language though- a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
More differences between different "dialects" of Chinese than some Romance languages, and the Scandinavian "languages"
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3538312&forum_id=2#32714883)
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Date: February 27th, 2017 7:46 PM Author: tan 180 boltzmann nursing home
Yeah it's not that mutually intelligible because of the NOrmans.
Huge changes in vocabulary after the Norman invasion.
The great vowel shift also contributed to the unintelligibility between English and other Germanic languages
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Date: February 27th, 2017 7:52 PM Author: tan 180 boltzmann nursing home
Stayed mostly germanic.
Norman influence just even in this sentence is yuge.
the words "influence" "sentence" all from Normans
The shift from Old English to Middle English is reallly really big. We can sort of read Chaucer- but reading Beowulf in its original text is like another language.
This is the Lord's Prayer in Old English:
(900~1100)
Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum
si þin nama gehalgod
tobecume þin rice
gewurþe þin willa
on eorðan swa swa on heofonum
urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us to dæg
and forgyf us ure gyltas
swa swa we forgyfað urum gyltendum
and ne gelæd þu us on costnunge
ac alys us of yfele soþlice.
vs. in Middle English (~1380)
Oure fadir that art in heuenes,
halewid be thi name
thi kyndoom come to
be thi wille don in erthe as in heuene
gyue to us this dai oure breed ouer othir substaunce
and forgyue to us oure dettis, as we forgyuen to oure gettouris and lede us not in to temptacioun, but delyuere us fro yuel.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3538312&forum_id=2#32714870)
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Date: February 27th, 2017 7:57 PM Author: tan 180 boltzmann nursing home
Not really- grammar is much different too- especially the use of "to" and the existence of noun cases in old english.
Also like i said, changes in vocabulary are huuuge.
A lot of the words we use daily come from NOrmans, especially in academic settings.
But even stuff like beef, pork vs. cows n swine.
Beef/pork are all French b/c it was the nobles that ate them, but Anglo-Saxons were the poor farmers that raised cows n swine.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3538312&forum_id=2#32714893)
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Date: February 27th, 2017 8:12 PM Author: orange school
(guy who's never studied Old English)
Orthography is part of it, but it hardly even starts to cover it. Orthography in Middle English almost wholly "fixes" it, some words are odd and occasionally word order seems funny, but it's comprehensible. Orthography for OE, especially texts not written for instruction, doesn't even scratch it.
However, both OE and Old Norse are 180 to study.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3538312&forum_id=2#32714993) |
Date: February 27th, 2017 11:05 PM Author: jet bearded sanctuary
Honkball
Doodslag
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3538312&forum_id=2#32716172) |
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